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Bloody fun with Sweeney Todd at San Francisco Opera

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“Blythe could rock Broadway stages as well as she does opera houses”
Reviewed at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco on 18 September 2015
Sondheim, Sweeney Todd
San Francisco Opera
Patrick Summers, Conductor
Lee Blakeley, Director
Brian Mulligan, Sweeney Todd
Stephanie Blythe, Mrs Lovett
Heidi Stober, Johanna Baker
Elliot Madore, Anthony Hope
Elizabeth Futral, Beggar Woman
David Curry, Adolfo Pirelli
Matthew Grills, Tobias Ragg
AJ Glueckert, Beadle Bamford
Wayne Tigges, Judge Turpin
San Francisco Opera Chorus
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